Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night we carried a report on fox hunting which may have given the impression that Mr Paul Davis held the view that the death of a hound was an acceptable price to pay in the campaign against hunting . |
| 2 | He is leading an English team to compete in the first ever Irish staging of the Jack Charlton Trout Cup — an event which will take place at a lake near Bantry in County Cork on March 29 and 30 . |
| 3 | It is not unusual to be in this position , and it may be that there is an accepted procedure to follow in the eventuality of employers making you an offer . |
| 4 | But there 's an entire album to follow in the New Year , called I Am Energy , produced by Tim Simenon of Bomb The Bass . |
| 5 | Due to the high humidity and space requirement it is not an easy plant to grow in the aquarium . |
| 6 | Or the second model they gave was the special constable either a newly recruited special or a person who is an existing special to work in the in the parish . |
| 7 | These are divestiture engagements in which the initiating member has been retained on an exclusive basis to assist in the sale of a business , and the business merits justify ( or the client specifically requests ) an international marketing program . |
| 8 | It was an awe-inspiring sight to stand in the dusk outside the office , watching and listening to the boys going out on what we all knew would be a hazardous and dangerous mission , from which at least some of them would not return . |
| 9 | I share my hon Friend 's appreciation of the value and importance of the large reforms proposed in the Bill of 1939 , and when I decided , as I announced on 23rd March , to appoint an Advisory Council to assist in the preparation of a programme of reforms , I certainly had it in mind that many of the proposals in that Bill — improved it may be by further consideration and fresh ideas — might find a place in such a programme . |
| 10 | Foam nonetheless can have an important part to play in the performance of a detergent . |
| 11 | Throughout my many years in the travel industry , I have always believed tourism has an important part to play in the spreading of understanding between countries , as well as being a catalyst for economic development . |
| 12 | New evidence suggests , however , that it has an important part to play in the lowering of harmful cholesterol . |
| 13 | In the fifteenth century , the freelance soldiers had an important part to play in the war . |
| 14 | Union members have an important part to play in the continued success of ’ next steps ’ . |
| 15 | In a similar way , simply asking children to draw a picture of what happened in their play is wasting an opportunity to move the drama forward and make the work purposeful : the picture could have an important part to play in the drama , in which case the quality of both the drama and the art work improves . |
| 16 | On January 21st President Bush held out an olive branch : some of the Arab countries supporting Iraq , he said , still had an important role to play in the future Middle East . |
| 17 | Dr. Aronstam believes that businessmen have an important role to play in the fight against AIDS . |
| 18 | By contrast , the new EXAFS studies show that modifying cations such as Na+ and Ca2+ have an important role to play in the structure of glass . |
| 19 | Thirty years ago Geoffrey Harris , working at the Maudsley Hospital in London , reasoned that the brain 's control of the pituitary must be exerted via hormones secreted into the bloodstream from the hypothalamus , a brain region with an important role to play in the regulation of many bodily functions . |
| 20 | There are also 121 autonomous local law societies , which have an important role to play in the formulation of policy by The Law Society . |
| 21 | Temporary work seems to have an important role to play in the transition from unemployment to employment . |
| 22 | As its name implies , the Via Militaris was a major line of communication for the Roman armies defending the eastern frontier , and as a stage in one of the links between Italy and Byzantium it already had an important role to play in the vital intercourse between the eastern and western halves of the empire . |
| 23 | When Bukharin , in his speech to the Sixth Congress , emphasised that the Latin American Communist parties ‘ had an important role to play in the development of national and agrarian revolutions ’ , Brazilian delegate Fernando Lacerna somewhat tartly pointed out that a Communist movement had existed in Latin America since 1920 but it was only in 1928 that ’ the Communist International [ had ] shown its interest in Latin America for the first time ’ ( La Correspondance Internationale ( organ of the Communist International ) , 1928 , in Alba : 1964 , p. 188 ) . |
| 24 | The solicitor has an important role to play in the committee process . |
| 25 | The honorary colonel system therefore has an important role to play in the British Army . |
| 26 | Although Napoleon was not much use on this occasion , the full-size skeleton has an important role to play in the future . |
| 27 | One or two delegations pleaded that since the UK proposal that ‘ the State whose nationals comprised more than fifty per cent of the passengers should be entitled to appoint an accredited representative to participate in the accident investigation ’ had not appeared on the agenda published by ICAO , they had not been briefed how to respond . |
| 28 | Tell me , it 's , it 's probably quite an expensive thing to do in the first place without having to , to , to bring home , home some money for charity in the end , how have you gone about doing it ? |
| 29 | It is frequently difficult for staff to accept the notion that anyone other than teachers should have an active part to play in the development of the school and they are often suspicious of the motives of parents who wish to take an extensive part in school life . |
| 30 | The human eye has an active role to play in the story . |